Adobe 65024500 - InDesign CS4 User manual

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Adobe InDesign CS4 is a page-layout software that takes print publishing and
page design beyond current boundaries. Replacing popular software such as
PageMaker and Quark Express, InDesign is a desktop publishing program that
incorporates illustration capabilities into its interface. It also allows for cross
platform interaction with Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat.
NOTE: This tutorial is fairly comprehensive in that it discusses the most common
aspects of InDesign and has been developed to take beginners through the
software from start to finish.
Getting Started …………………………………………………...…….… Page 3
Toolbox ……………………………………………………………….....… Page 5
Organizing the Document ……………………………………………..… Page 7
Column Specifications ………………………………………………….... Page 8
Rulers ……………………………………………………………………… Page 9
Guides ……………………………………………………………………... Page 10
Inserting/Formatting Text ………………………………………………... Page 11
Type Menu ………………………………………………………….…...... Page 12
Using Colors …………………………………………………………….… Page 13
Working With Objects (Images, Graphics, and Elements)…….…...… Page 14
Placing Images …………………………………………………………… Page 15
Enabling Text Wraps ……………………………………………….…..... Page 16
Layers and Arranging ..……………………………………..................... Page 17
Grouping ……………………………………………………..……………. Page 18
Locking …….………………………………………………………….…… Page 19
Saving ………………………………………………………………….….. Page 20
Exporting To PDF…………………………………………………………. Page 21

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Begin by opening Adobe InDesign CS4.
On a PC, click Start > Programs > Adobe > InDesign CS4, or click on the InDesign
shortcut on the desktop.
On a Mac, click Macintosh HD > Application > Adobe InDesign CS4 > InDesign CS4,
or click the InDesign icon in the Dock.
SETTING UP THE DOCUMENT
Setting up your document correctly from the start will make your job much easier as you
work through your project. This will require some advanced planning. For example, if
your final output will be a brochure, you may need to set up your document to be
horizontal and double-sided.
To create a new document, click File > New > Document. This will open the Document
Setup dialog box. Here you will be able to set up the correct page size, margins, and
page columns for your document.
Options include, but are not limited to:
Number of Pages
Type a value for the total number of pages for this document.
Facing Pages
Select this option to make left and right pages face each other in a double-page spread.
Deselect this option to let each page stand alone, such as when you plan to print on both
sides of a sheet of paper or want objects to bleed in the binding.
Master Text Frame
Select this option to create a text frame the size of the area within the margin guides,
matching the column settings you specified. The master text frame is added to the
master.
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Fig. 1 Navigation to InDesign CS4 on a Mac
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Page Size
Choose a page size from the menu, or type values for Width and Height. Page size
represents the final size you want after bleeds or trimming other marks outside the page.
There are presets for common sizes such as letter, legal, and tabloid.
Orientation
Click the portrait (tall) or landscape (wide) icons. These icons interact dynamically with
the dimensions you enter in Page Size. When Height is the larger value, the portrait icon
is selected. When Width is the larger value, the landscape icon is selected. Clicking the
deselected icon switches the Height and Width values.
NOTE: The default unit of measurement in InDesign is pica (p0). If you type a value into
the Width or Height text fields and use the abbreviation for inches (in), InDesign will
automatically convert it.
Bleed
After clicking More Options, the bleed area is used to align objects that you want to
extend all the way to the trim line of your printed document.
Slug
After clicking More Options, the slug area is used for instructions to the printer, sign-off
forms, or other information related to your document. The slug area is discarded when
the document is trimmed to its final page size.
When you have entered all of your document settings, click OK.
NOTE: If you incorrectly enter information in the Document Setup dialog box, or if you
need to adjust any of this information while you are working, you can make changes at
any time by clicking File > Document Setup.

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InDesign's toolbox should be very familiar to users who are comfortable with PageMaker
and Illustrator. InDesign shares all of the tools that were available in PageMaker and
most of the tools found in Illustrator. For a basic user, not all of these tools will be
essential. While it is important to become familiar with the tools offered, it is not vital to
know all of them. In this tutorial, only the basic tools will be discussed in depth. Below
there is a description of every tool available.

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Fig. 2 Different tools used in InDesign!

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Working in InDesign can sometimes call for mathematical precision in the layout of
the document. This section provides tips on how you can use the available Rulers,
Guides, and Column Specifications to make your final output precise with the
placement of your text and graphics exactly where you want them.
Using the Zoom Tool in conjunction with the Guides and Rulers is helpful because it
allows you to focus in on specific areas of your documents to make the placement of
your text and graphics as accurate as possible. You can access the Zoom Tool by
selecting it from the Tool Box (Fig. 3), or by going to View > Zoom In or View > Zoom
Out (Fig. 4).
The following sections within this tutorial explain:
• Column Specifications (Page 8)
• Rulers (Page 9)
• Guides (Page 10)
Fig. 3 Zoom Tool
found on the Tool Box
Fig. 4 Navigation to the Zoom Tool!
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To insert columns into your document click Layout > Margins and Columns.
1. Enter the number of columns you would like in the Number of Columns text
field (Fig. 5).
2. Enter the space (in inches) that you would like in between your columns in the
Gutter text field.
3. Make sure the chain image is linked and not broken if you would like InDesign to
……….automatically make all the settings the same throughout the rest of your
……….document.
Fig. 5 Margins and Columns box
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Rulers are used to measure the placement of texts and images in your document. The
rulers measure in inches, starting at “0”, and run horizontally and vertically from the top
left corner of your document.
If the Rulers are not displayed, click View > Show Rulers (Fig. 6). Or, if the Rulers are
being displayed, and you want to get rid of them, go to View > Hide Rulers (Fig. 7).
Clicking and dragging on the box where the horizontal and vertical rulers meet adjusts
the placement of the ruler.
NOTE: The rulers must be shown in order to draw Guides, which are described in the
next section.
Fig. 7 Hide Rulers!
Fig. 6 Show Rulers!
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Guides are temporary horizontal and vertical lines that you can set up within your
document to produce page layout with mathematical precision. They are not actually
drawn into your document; they exist only on-screen to help you with your layout.
Guides are useful because they help keep all parts of the document aligned properly,
and they assist when measuring with the rulers. The Rulers must be shown in order to
insert Guides.
INSERTING GUIDES
To insert a Guide, place your pointer on the horizontal (or vertical) ruler at the top of
your document. Click and drag down onto the document where you would like your
guide to be. You should notice a dotted line that correlates with the movement of your
pointer. Measure the distance you are pulling your Guide down at by using the vertical
(horizontal) ruler on the left of your document. The Guide will appear as a thin aqua line.
If you do not like where you placed your Guide, you can move it to another part of the
document by clicking and dragging it, or, you can remove it completely by dragging it off
of the document.
"SNAP TO" GUIDES
Snapping to a Guide is like “magnetizing” it. If you drag an image or element near a
Guide (within a fraction of an inch), the image or element will lock into place with the
Guide. To turn snapping on or off, click View > Grids and Guides > Snap to Guides
(Fig. 8).
HIDING GUIDES
If you would like to view your document without the aid of the Guides, you can hide
them temporarily by going to View > Grids and Guides > Hide Guides (Fig. 9).
Fig. 9 Hiding Guides !
Fig. 8 Snap to Guides !
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Now that you have a basic understanding of setting up a document and using the Tool
Box, you can begin inserting text. Using the Text Tool (T) (Fig. 10), click onto your page
to enable the text cursor. Don’t be discouraged if the cursor does not line up exactly
where you want to place your text – you can move and format your text later. Begin
typing your content. Once you have your raw text on the page you can begin
manipulating it to your liking.
Change from the Text Tool to the Pointer Tool and click over your text. You will notice
that your text has been placed into a “box” of sorts. This is called an Element. Many
objects and all of your text must be within an Element; there is no “freestanding” text in
an InDesign document as you might find in a Microsoft Word document.
Using the Pointer Tool, you can move the Element of text around to anywhere you like
on the page. Using the “grippers” on the corners of the Element, you can adjust the
width and length of the Element. If you do not specify a length for the Element, it will
expand according to the length of your text, however, if you adjust the length of the
Element to be smaller than your text, your text will not be visible. A red tab below the
Element indicates that there is more content within the Element that is not visible
(Fig. 11).
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Fig. 10 Text Tool !
Fig. 11 Top box shows text that fits in the
…….…Element. Bottom box shows that
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A common way to format and manipulate your text is to use the Type Menu at the top of
the screen. You will notice the first few items under the pull down menu are rather basic
and self-explanatory (such as font, size, style, etc.), however, there are other more
advanced features used for formatting text under the Type Menu.
CONTROL PALATTE
Another way to adjust the font, style, and size of your text is to use the Control Palette.
The Control Palette is full of quick formatting options used to manipulate the text,
images, and shapes you place in your document. It should be displayed at the top of
your screen; if it is not, click Window > Control (Fig. 12).
ALIGNMENT
Next you may want to adjust the alignment or justification of the text Element. Granted,
you probably could try to center your text Element just by moving it to the center of the
page; however, InDesign’s method of aligning text is much more versatile and precise.
To adjust the alignment of your text, do the following:
1. Switch to the Text Tool and highlight your block of text.
2. Click Type > Paragraph. You are given nine options of alignment for text; Left,
Right, Center, Justify Left, Justify Right, Justify Center, Justify All, Align Towards
Spine, and Align Away From Spine (Fig. 13).
3. Notice that if you select Center, for example, your text will always remain
centered within the Element, even if you adjust the width of the Element.
Fig. 12 Control Palette for type!
Fig. 13 Paragraph Box from Type Menu!
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InDesign includes thousands of color options as well as the ability to mix and create your
own colors. After opening a new document, the Colors Palette window should appear
on the right-hand side of the screen. If it is not there, click Window > Color.
The Color Palette and Effects Palette (Fig. 14) are included in the same window. Make
sure that the "color tab” is selected at the top of the window. InDesign includes 10
default color options within the Swatches Palette. These colors are selected from the
two common color models: RGB and CMYK. (Use RGB colors if your output will be on a
computer or TV screen. Use CMYK colors for print documents.)
To add a color to your Swatches Palette, click the arrow at the top right of the Color
Palette and click New Color Swatch. A dialog box will appear allowing you to customize
colors that you can add to your Swatches Palette (Fig. 15).
You can change from CMYK to RGB by clicking the box next to "Color Mode". Using the
"mixer" at the bottom of the menu, adjust the units of each color accordingly. When the
color looks the way you want it to, give the color a name. Try to avoid names such as
“dark blue” or “tan” because these names are not extremely descriptive. It is best to
name your color according to the units used to mix the color. For example,
r24_g18_b136. This indicates that there are 24 units of red, 18 units of green, and 136
units of blue used to create such a color. Now, if necessary, this color can be
quantitatively remixed in other applications.
Click Add to make the color available on your palette. You can remove colors from the
Swatches Palette by clicking and dragging.
Fig. 14 Color and Effects Palette!
Fig. 15 Swatches Palette!
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Now that you have learned how to insert and edit text Elements, you need to
understand how to work with other kinds of objects within your document. Nearly every
InDesign document will contain text, and/or graphics. Using the three together takes
thorough knowledge of InDesign’s capabilities.
For the purposes of this tutorial, it is important to understand the kind of "objects" to
which this tutorial refers:
• Text (Element) - A block of text within a defined "text box" (discussed in a
previous section).
• Image - A picture file with one of the following extensions: .jpg, .gif, .tif, .pct,
or .bmp.
•Graphic - Tables, charts, graphs, vector art, etc. created in another program
such as Microsoft Excel or Adobe Illustrator.
InDesign is a linking device; it does not create images or graphics, rather, it pulls existing
ones from various places and allows you to arrange them; therefore, when inserting
images and graphics into your document, you should never use the “copy & paste”
technique. Instead, save your images and graphics in the same folder as your InDesign
document, and “link” them into the document (discussed in the next section). You can
view the source location of the images and graphics that are linked into your document
by going to the Links Palette (Fig. 16 and 17).
The following sections offer an in depth explanation of how to insert and adjust images,
graphics, and Elements within your document.
• Placing Images (Page 15)
• Enabling Text Wraps (Page 16)
• Layers and Arranging (Page 17)
• Grouping (Page 18)
• Locking (Page 19)
Fig. 16 Navigation to Links Palette!
Fig. 17 Links Palette!
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Place is the function used to insert an image into your document. It is comparable to
Microsoft Word’s “Insert Picture from File” function. When you Place something into your
document, it is "linked" to the document from its current location (as previously
mentioned). Therefore, it is recommended that you store all of your content for your
document in the same location.
To Place an image into your document do the following:
1. Make sure the Pointer Tool is selected. (If the Text Tool is selected when placing
an image, the image will insert within a blank Element - not as an independent unit.
images within Elements are difficult to format and reposition.)
2. Go to File > Place.
3. Navigate through the pull down menus to find the file that you want to insert.
Select the file and hit OK (Fig. 18).
4. Your cursor will change into a small grey picture box that represents your
"unplaced" image. Find the approximate location where you want to drop the
image and click the mouse once.
Once you have Placed the object, switch to the Pointer Tool to move the object to the
precise location where you want it. If you want to resize your image, single-click on your
image, click the Free Transform Tool (Fig. 19) and you can resize it using the
"grippers" – little black squares - that surround the image. Click and drag a gripper
inward or outward to expand or shrink you image as desired. If you would like to
maintain the original proportions of the image when you resize it, hold down the Shift
key as you perform the resizing action.
Fig. 18 Navigation to select image to place!
Fig. 19 Free Transform Tool!
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If you have a large block of text and would like to insert an image in close proximity
without the text or image overlapping, you can use a function called Text Wrap (which is
used frequently in Microsoft Word.) Using the Pointer Tool, click on the image and go to
Window > Text Wrap. There are several visual options that display the different kinds of
Text Wraps (Fig. 20). The numerical settings at the bottom of the window denote how
much "buffer space" should be maintained between the image and the text.
Fig. 20 Text Wrap box!

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InDesign uses Layers like many other current software programs. Layers allow you to
overlap objects within the document. Each time you create a new object, a new Layer is
created. Frequently, you will want to adjust the layering of the objects within a document.
InDesign allows you to quickly stack objects “above” and “below” using a function called
Arranging.
The images below demonstrate the concept of arranging layers within the document
(Fig. 21). This particular image contains five Layers: a yellow background box, a red
box, a blue box, a green ellipse, and the text Element. Notice how the layering of the red
box has been adjusted in each panel.
Although you may think of these layers as being "above" and "below" one another,
InDesign uses the terms Forward and Backward. To move an object forwards or
backwards within the Layers, select the object you wish to move and click Object >
Arrange > Bring Forward (or Send Backwards). Additionally, you can move an object
to the very front of the page (above all other Layers), or to the very back (below all
Layers) by clicking Object > Arrange > Bring to Front (or Send to Back to put it below
everything else).
Fig. 21 Shows how the different shapes can be arranged to lay on top of each other!

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Frequently, you will have many images, graphics, and Elements on the screen at once.
It can be very beneficial to connect several of these together once they are positioned
correctly so that you can move all of them at once and maintain the relational distance
between each of them. This function is called Grouping.
To Group two or more objects, do the following:
1. Select all of the objects that you want to Group together. This can be done in two
ways (both using the Pointer Tool):
• Hold down the Shift key and click on each object individually, or,
• Starting in an empty space on the page, click and hold the mouse
and drag it outward creating a “ghost box” around all of the objects
you want to select. When you release the mouse all of the items
within the box should be selected (Fig. 22).
2. Click Object > Group (Fig. 23).
3. If you click over the newly grouped objects with the pointer tool you will notice
that they are bound together as one large object.
4. To ungroup these objects, click on the grouped objects and hit Object >
Ungroup.
Fig. 22 Left image shows objects not grouped. Right image objects grouped.
Fig. 23 Navigation to Group or Ungroup Objects!
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Sometimes, you may have an object placed exactly where you want it and you will want
to avoid moving it by accident. (For example, if you have a large image or graphic as a
background for the page, you may select it and move it accidentally if you are not
careful.) Therefore, InDesign has a function called Locking to help you avoid such
accidents. When an object is Locked, it cannot be moved, adjusted, or altered in any
way.
To Lock objects, select them using the Pointer Tool and click Object > Lock Position
(Fig. 24). Notice now that InDesign restricts the object from being altered in any way. To
unlock the object(s), click Object > Unlock Position (Fig. 25).
NOTE:As with Grouping, you can hold down the Shift key to select multiple objects.
Fig. 24 Locking an Object!
Fig. 25 Unlocking an Object!
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Saving your document should be a habit when working in InDesign. Saving frequently
lessens the risk of losing the work you have been doing.
1. To save your InDesign document go to File > Save As.
2. The Save As dialogue box will appear (Fig. 26).
3. Navigate to the place you would like your document to be saved by using the
drop-down menu and navigation window.
4. Enter the name of your document in the Save As text field.
5. Click the Save button in the lower right corner of the dialogue box.
6. Check to make sure that your document is saved in the place you intended.
Fig. 26 Save your file in the desired place in the Save As box!
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